Dave exposes the global White Van Speaker Scam and tears down a Marc Vincent Surround Sound Receiver, one of the items sold in Australia through this scam.How crap is it?, watch and find out!Also a 3D Optics HD-8500 projector that is also sold as part of the scam that involves the absolute cheapest quality parts sold under fake brands at grossly inflated prices from literally the back of a van.

A Current Affair Exposé of the scam in Australia, and the Marc Vincent brand in particular:

The issue with that projector wasn't that the lens was flapping about, but that they'd used plastic fresnel lenses and a standard LCD panel!It was basically a monitor with a brighter backlight & some bits of plastic kinda reminds me of these

The issue with that projector wasn't that the lens was flapping about, but that they'd used plastic fresnel lenses and a standard LCD panel!It was basically a monitor with a brighter backlight & some bits of plastic

Ah yes. The old Van Speakers grift. that has been over here in the U.S. since the 70's. I have a friend who in a less than perfect youth used to be a peddler of this crap. Back then it was stuff that was not import worthy that rather than end up in tokyo bay or destroyed by customs would walk out the door by the longshoremen and into the hands of grifters. They had scripts and all. Buyer Be Ware!! I put it in the same category as all the fake health supplements and what have you. Just don't expect the guy who sold it to you to feel too bad when your house burns down!

Usually you will either encounter it on motorway service stations or you will get stopped directly on the road by some darker skinned business-like guys in suits running around an older expensive car - like a Mercedes or BMW. They will claim they have ran out of gas (or something similar), but they don't have euros/credit card/whatever, so they will offer to sell you some supposedly golden jewelry, watches or electronics for a bargain price in order to be able to continue their trip. Of course, it is all worthless junk. Also the car tends to "magically" fix itself if police shows up (or someone mentions calling it).

There are gangs of these scammers all over Europe, moving quickly from place to place. They can be actually very aggressive, sometimes literally jumping in front of your car to force you to stop to deal with them. Some will even steal stuff from your car while you are distracted by dealing with one of them. These are usually gypsy/Roma gangs from the Balkans - Bulgarians, Romanians, etc. running these schemes.

Few years ago I got approached by a guy in Denmark who was trying to sell me a "really top quality Hugo Boss" suit in a parking lot like this. I am not sure what was he thinking, people usually don't buy clothing without trying it on ...

That's not a proper projection system lamp, that's a "garden" "commercial building" HID lamp, in fact you can see the big ass ballasts in front lol (That Dave doesn't even gloss over).Proper projectors either use a small dichroic HID lamp that comes as a module or some other esoteric systems when you go ultra high end(Lasers and shit).

Also, Nuvoton is a big brand name, they manufacture big core logic that's currently used on servers(Dell and HP ones at least, current generation, and that's top dollar), the SoC has the system video card, a full embedded processor core, MII ethernet ports, usb KVM control logic, ram interface, etc etc and all of that makes the out of band management system

It would have been interesting to see if the valves (tubes) were real or not. I noticed the thin grid wires in one of the tubes and I do not think that they would go to the trouble to replicate this. I suspect that they were recycled as well.

It would have been interesting to see if the valves (tubes) were real or not. I noticed the thin grid wires in one of the tubes and I do not think that they would go to the trouble to replicate this. I suspect that they were recycled as well.